Holmes v. Holmes’s Empirical Analysis
1949
Citation profile
26 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 26 later decisions — most recently January 2025 · most notably Matter of Estate of Kimball (1978), Neal v. Wailes (1959)
26 state decisions
Later decisions citing this case, by decade. The current decade is in progress, and our corpus holds fewer opinions from the most recent years, so the latest bars are undercounted — not a real decline.
Relationships
Relies on 17 Cal. 2d 108 - Biewend v. Biewend · Duss v. Duss · Cochrane v. Cochrane · McCaleb v. McCaleb · 3 Cal. App. 2d 140 - Livesay v. Deibert
Most-quoted passages
The sentences later courts lift from this opinion, ranked by how many decisions quote each — the parts of the opinion doing the work. These counts are smaller than the citation total above because most of the 26 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““It is a well established rule that it is only the decretal portion of a decree that is binding and becomes res adjudicata. The recital of facts in a decree is usual and is proper, but the rights of the parties are adjudicated, not by the recital of facts, but solely by the decretal portion of the decree. It is this -and this only that becomes the final judgment of the court, from which an appeal will lie.” (Citing cases.)”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Porter v. Stanford“all errors, mistakes, or omissions which are not the result of the exercise of the judicial function”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Kearns v. State
How this case has been treated — in progress
Whether each later court followed, distinguished, criticized, or overruled this decision. The treatment classification (task #35) runs highest-cited cases first and lights up here as it reaches this one.